Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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James
2007-11-18 17:00:22

Affirmative action was undertaken in the name of equality. But, as always seems to happen, it soon fell prey to the Orwellian logic … “but some animals are more equal than others.”

Are you seriously trying to suggest that under affirmative action, blacks are now treated as superior to whites?

I understand that in the attempt to compensate for disadvantage, affirmative action can produce perverse results. But isn’t this going a little too far?